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* Re: Performance issue on dual Athlon MP
@ 2002-03-06 22:09 rwhron
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: rwhron @ 2002-03-06 22:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gyro; +Cc: linux-kernel

> I have a dual Athlon MP box (Tyan S2460 Tiger MP, 1.53 GHz, 2.5 GB Corsair
> PC2100).  The initial installation was of SuSE 7.3, but I have upgraded to
> 2.4.17 with Andrea's 3.5 GB userspace patch.

> Is this a known problem with 2.4.17 and/or the 3.5 GB userspace patch?  I
> have not tried turning off the 3.5 GB config option (`CONFIG_05GB').  I do
> have `CONFIG_MK7' set.

The configuration I would try first on 2.4.19pre1aa1 with 2.5 GB of RAM is 
CONFIG_3GB=y and CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y.  If that causes some other problem,
I'd go with CONFIG_2GB, then finally CONFIG_1GB.  Each config changes
the user/kernel memory split.  The loads I've run suggest for best 
performance:

	CONFIG_2GB > CONFIG_1GB > CONFIG_05GB

On my 1GB box, I've been running CONFIG_2GB for a couple months and 
performance is great.  Only lingering question for me is the handling
of oom.  Oom hasn't caused be a problem, but I haven't seen the oom
killer do it's work when I create an oom condition.

BTW, Andrew Morton's read_latency2 patch is a winner.  The read_latency2
diff I use on my 2.4.19pre1aa1 boxes is at:

http://home.earthlink.net/~rwhron/kernel/read_latency2-2.4.19pre1aa1.diff

-- 
Randy Hron


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* Re: Performance issue on dual Athlon MP
@ 2002-03-06 19:28 Dieter Nützel
  2002-03-06 20:49 ` John Jasen
  2002-03-07 23:20 ` Scott L. Burson
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Dieter Nützel @ 2002-03-06 19:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Scott L. Burson; +Cc: Linux Kernel List

On Wednesday, 6. März 2002 18:47:02, Scott L. Burson wrote:
> I have a dual Athlon MP box (Tyan S2460 Tiger MP, 1.53 GHz, 2.5 GB Corsair
> PC2100).  The initial installation was of SuSE 7.3, but I have upgraded to
> 2.4.17 with Andrea's 3.5 GB userspace patch.

Try 2.4.19-pre2-ac2 or 2.4.19pre1aa1+O(1). Maybe preemption can help, too.

Regards,
	Dieter

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* Performance issue on dual Athlon MP
@ 2002-03-06 18:47 Scott L. Burson
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Scott L. Burson @ 2002-03-06 18:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Greetings,

I have a dual Athlon MP box (Tyan S2460 Tiger MP, 1.53 GHz, 2.5 GB Corsair
PC2100).  The initial installation was of SuSE 7.3, but I have upgraded to
2.4.17 with Andrea's 3.5 GB userspace patch.

Mostly the machine works fine, but when it does a lot of disk I/O, it starts 
to bog down badly.  The most common cause is a large `find', such as those
that SuSE runs periodically over the root filesystem, which has some 22GB of 
stuff in it (it's ReiserFS, BTW).  "Bog down badly" means:

() shell can take several minutes to respond to input

() `top' updates become rare, but when they occur, show both CPUs spending
upwards of 95% of their cycles in the kernel

Although the system can appear hung, if I leave it alone for a few hours, it
recovers and everything is fine.

Is this a known problem with 2.4.17 and/or the 3.5 GB userspace patch?  I
have not tried turning off the 3.5 GB config option (`CONFIG_05GB').  I do
have `CONFIG_MK7' set.

Please CC: me in replies, as I am not on the list.

-- Scott

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